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We won’t promise you the moon, but we will give you the world. The Chamber is a support system for businesses to gain insight and knowledge about how others are doing business in the ever-changing global marketplace.

WORLD TRADE CENTER
The Chamber’s World Trade Center has been a member since 1990 of the World Trade Center Association (WTCA) a not-for-profit, non-political association that represents 281 centers in 80 countries around the globe. The World Trade Center Association, the world’s largest private international trade association, was created to promote global trade and, through those relationships, foster peace and understanding.

The World Trade Center is committed to:
  • Focusing on trade education of the business community
  • Building global business leadership
  • Promoting a unified voice of the business community to our International Investors, to our membership, and to the small and medium sized business located in the greater Kansas City region.

GLOBE (Global Leadership Opportunities for Business Executives)
Presented by the WTC in partnership with the Kansas Women’s Business Center and Enterprise Center of Johnson County

In 1997, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce recognized the need to develop an international executive business leadership program under its World Trade Center brand. Now recruiting for its 12th year, this signature program provides a forum where business, government and community champions deliver key strategies illustrating international best business practices.

FACTS:
  • 96% of the world's consumers live outside the borders of the United States
  • Each day the United States conducts nearly $11 billion in trade and 97% of the U.S. exports are from small to medium-sized businesses
  • Key exports from the states of Missouri and Kansas include transportation equipment, chemical and machinery products, computers and electronics and processed foods
  • GLOBE began in 1998 under the leadership direction of Harry Cleberg, former CEO of Farmland Foods
  • Over 200 graduates have participated in the GLOBE program
  • President Obama has declared that May 17-23, 2009 is World Trade Week! Read more about it >>
  • GLOBE 2010 dates: GLOBE will meet on the second Tuesday of each month beginning March 9 until October. Download the GLOBE informational flyer, and the application for GLOBE XVIII (deadline is February 26, 2010!)
  • All GLOBE participants who apply and are accepted for the 2010 GLOBE program have a chance to be entered into a drawing for a Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007. The winner will be chosen during the first GLOBE class that meets on Tuesday, March 9th. Sign up to be a part of the GLOBE program today!


    2010 Partnership Mission
    Each year we lead an international partnership mission under our World Trade Center banner (the international programming division of our Chamber). Over the past nine years we have traveled to Frankfurt, Brussels, Munich, London, Mexico City Monterrey, Mexico, Costa Rica, China, Central Europe, India and Ireland.

    Annual Partnership Mission to Thailand, May 19-27, 2010
    Meet with business executives, government, trade officials and policy leaders and promote trade relations with key companies in our Kansas City region. Join business executives, entrepreneurs, professors and community leaders in exploring market opportunities and growth strategies on this year’s trip to Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand. All inclusive price covers international flights out of L A, hotel, most meals, ground transport and guide gratuities.


    Chamber Discount Travel - Tuscany, November 2-10, 2010 (New program for 2010!)
    The Chamber is partnering with a travel business company specializing in providing discount all-inclusive travel packages to chambers across the country, organizing exciting global agendas. This trip is ideal for those desiring to explore and experience an international market first hand without the detail of international trip planning.


    Innovation Conference July, 2010
    This annual conference provides valuable information about emerging trends in technology, business strategies and best practices in knowledge management in a global environment. Conference committee meets monthly to determine content, speakers and logistics for the event. Committee volunteers always welcome!


    Global Future
    Created in 2002 in collaboration with Park University, Global Future is an exciting program offering university juniors/seniors an overview of global business cultures that exist in our metropolitan area. Students, recommended by their faculty advisors/professors, meet monthly at the World Trade Center starting each fall and learn from international business professionals. This program allows networking opportunities between students and presenters. Business presenters and academia are encouraged to participate! Apply for Global Future >>


    World Trade Center Book Club
    The WTC book club was launched in 2006 with the facilitation of the Tom Freidman’s book, The World is Flat. Other titles have included: China, One Billion Customers, The Flight of the Creative Class and The Lexus and the Olive Tree. Conducted in partnership with UPS. Facilitation is done by key Kansas City executives engaged in global business activities. Sessions meet quarterly. This opportunity is ideal for busy executives who desire thoughtful and compelling insights to key global book titles.


    World Trade Center Washington D. C. Mission
    The Washington D.C. Mission each February offers to companies and international executives the opportunity to meet with federal government and private agencies that facilitate international trade. Attendees experience a three-day intensive immersion with agencies such as U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U S Department of Commerce, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, International Trade Administration and World Bank that are key resources for companies doing business internationally as well as regional lobbyists and our state elected officials. Dates for 2010 are February 9-11, 2010.


    Certificates of Origin - (Chamber members only benefit)
    The Chamber provides stamped certificate of origins, an official document stating the country of origin of the goods being exported is often required by the customs authorities of the importing country.
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